Data Scientist - Engineer (Scrum Master)

Afsan Abdulali Gujarati

Education

Dalhousie University (GPA – 4.22/4.3) Halifax, Canada

Fredericton, NB, Canada (Willing to Relocate) Masters of E-Commerce (Data Science) September 2017 - July 2019 addd60@r.postjobfree.com +1-902-***-**** University of Mumbai (First Class) Mumbai, India github.com/afsangujarati93 linkedin.com/in/afsangujarati Bachelor of Engineering August 2010 - October 2014 Relevant Work Experience

Introhive Fredericton, Canada

Data Scientist - Engineer (Scrum Master) September 2019 – Present o Building scalable ETL pipelines and end to end integration of engineering components with machine learning models to handle up to quarter million queries in less than 5 minutes from an initial 15 minutes. o Create scalable predictive models through the application of mathematical techniques based on business requirements in an Agile environment to deploy behind the firewall with limited hardware specification. o Research the state of art machine learning techniques, and also analyze and report its strengths and weaknesses to select that approach that would best suit the product specifications. o Prepare a process to evaluate the effectiveness of predictive models for practical applications using a quantitative and qualitative approach.

Dalhousie Natural Language Processing

Halifax, Canada

Data Scientist Researcher September 2018 – July 2019 o Developing intricate algorithms using machine learning techniques based on the hypothesis to discover the commonality between the data and make predictions based on it. o Analytically design and conduct experiments using supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods and communicate them through visualization in terms of business goals. o Critically analyze and justify the results to select the best performing model by looking into the features, debugging the classifier, and comparing the confusion matrices and performance metrics. BlueNode

Halifax, Canada

Software Engineer Researcher January 2018 – July 2019 o Designed and developed a system for automated data cleaning, analysis, and data sources integration of Halifax Port Authority's shipment data that helped the company to raise their first round of funding. o Designed and developed a platform for ranking and selecting a candidate with an objective of data collection, achieved by creating user stories based on client’s requirement and iterating through it using Agile methodologies.

BookMyShow

Mumbai, India

Software Engineer August 2015 – September 2017

o Led the design and development of the Movie Ticket Cancellation feature by understanding the business goals and converting it into technical requirements which currently handles over a quarter-million cancellation every month.

o Integrated Indonesian Cinema Chain on BMS platform for sync and transactional flow, which allowed customers to book tickets for the Indonesian Cinemas through BMS website. o Migrated specific databases from SQL to Redis, which reduced query response time for users. Technical Skills

Databases: MS SQL, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL

Languages: Python, C#

Frameworks: Django, Flask, Rails, .Net

Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Platform/Tools: AWS, Google App Engine, Google

Analytics, Rabbit MQ, Docker

Data Science Libraries: PyTorch, NLTK, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Pandas, BeautifulSoup, Numpy Thesis

Authorship Attribution Halifax, Canada

Supervisor – Dr. Vlado Keselj September 2018 – July 2019 Examining Committee – Dr. Stan Matwin and Dr. Evangelos Milios o Identifying the author of an unseen document based on their written and read documents using Natural Language Processing assisted with Machine Learning Techniques. o The novel approach of using the documents read by the author to train the model, is first of its kind which was able to boost the accuracy from 65.2% to 91.30%.

Machine Learning Projects

What: Identifying Out of Office emails in the inbox and creating a task by extracting dates from the email How: Support Vector Machines, Natural Language Processing, Google API Where: (Private Repo) https://github.com/afsangujarati93/Out-Of-Office What: Personalized summary based on user’s origin by selecting most relevant sentences from the input text How: Web Scraping, Natural Language Processing, Python Where: https://github.com/afsangujarati93/Lingua-Franca-Text-Summarization What: Sentiment analysis of user emails

How: Neural networks, SVM, Naïve Bayes Classifier, Sentiment140, Sentiment Treebank, Python – Flask Where: Introhive

What: Creating user profile by analyzing their email interactions How: Neural networks, K-means Clustering, Associate Rule Mining Where: Introhive

Other Projects

What: Chrome extension for scraping of Facebook and LinkedIn page, group and event members (1000+ users) How: Web Scraping, JavaScript, Chrome API, Beautiful Soup, Python – Flask Where: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dig/anehhjfnjcjlnapiildgpkjcljcplikn What: Contacts API - Restful API to process and return thousands of requests every month How: Python - Django REST Framework, ElasticSearch, Web hooks Where: LeadSift

What: ChildCare Management Software (In Progress)

How: Python - Django Framework, MySQL, JavaScript

Where: First Foundation PreSchool

Achievements & Awards Extra-Curricular Activities & Interests o Led a team to successfully raise $2000 for a Community Building Ski-Trip at Dalhousie University with projectDAL

(projectdal.ca/project/skitrip/)

o Certified Professional Scrum Master Level 1 (PSM-1)

(scrum.org/user/213871)

o Completed the course - MongoDB for DBAs.

(tiny.cc/u4uv5y)

o Team Aerosols – Gold Medalist at SAE Aero Design West an event organized by Lockheed Martin.

(tinyurl.com/ycyjaqry)

o Vice President (External) of CSGS Society

(2018-2019) at Dalhousie University (csgs.cs.dal.ca). o Member at Large for CSGS Society (2017-2018) at

Dalhousie University (tiny.cc/hk2w5y).

o Volunteered for AgaKhan Education Service India – North Mumbai at different levels.

o Vigilant Scouts and Guides Open Troop Member.

o Member of Data Science Practitioners East

Keywords

Data Mining, Machine Learning, Data Transformation, Natural Language Processing, Text-Classification, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Web Scraping, Critical Thinking, Logical Thinking, Creative, Inter-personal Skills, Python, Agile, Product, Research, Visualization, Text-Analytics

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